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Re: Show HN: I made a game to improve my typing speed

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Post by Sakos »

throw1234651234 wrote: post #36
lycos wrote: post #33

My parents forced me to take typing lessons on typewriters in the 90s and I am thankful they did, of course that had some technical limitations in regard to speed but it definitely made me a great blind typist which is the main foundation for typing fast in my opinion. Some years later in school I also had a typing class at some point and the teachers thought I cheated because of my high scores so I had to take the t…

Can you take this please http://wpm-test.com/programming-typing-test/ It's all fun and games until it's code. I barely clear 50 wpm on that, and I know where every key is without looking. I actually dread typing those 3-10 lines on that test, which is how I know I could use more practice, but can't find the time for it.

1) My wrists hurt now

2) Thank god for autocompletion and other things IDEs do to save you from typing so much

3) It's weird and unnatural that the test requires so much whitespace.

4) This reaffirms my decision to get myself a keyboard kit like the Elora or Lily58. Main benefits being the otholinear layout and moving the mod keys and others like ([{}]) to the thumbs or other more ergonomic positions.

Re: Show HN: I made a game to improve my typing speed

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Post by cordenr »

hnrodey wrote: post #51
throw1234651234 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you take this please http://wpm-test.com/programming-typing-test/ It's all fun and games until it's code. I barely clear 50 wpm on that, and I know where every key is without looking. I actually dread typing those 3-10 lines on that test, which is how I know I could use more practice, but can't find the time for it.

this is pretty cool. ty for sharing. >You can type 74 words per minute

>You can type 84 words per minute

(After a few attempts)

I self learned to type using "Iankey"[0] (the manual[1]). In my opinion, it is one of the best training tools I tried - I should search around my old backups to see if I can still find it.

[0] https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/68105/Iankey/ [1] https://www.habisoft.com/pcwwiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=apl...

Re: Show HN: I made a game to improve my typing speed

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Post by hombre_fatal »

z3ncyberpunk wrote: post #63

Neat but many letters get stuck and won't register as being pressed when multiple appear at once.

I had the same impression but the game expects you to type the letters in the order that they appear. I didn't realize I was doing this until there were so many letters on screen which made it seem like the game stopped responding.

Re: Show HN: I made a game to improve my typing speed

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Post by tmtvl »

throw1234651234 wrote: post #36
lycos wrote: post #33

My parents forced me to take typing lessons on typewriters in the 90s and I am thankful they did, of course that had some technical limitations in regard to speed but it definitely made me a great blind typist which is the main foundation for typing fast in my opinion. Some years later in school I also had a typing class at some point and the teachers thought I cheated because of my high scores so I had to take the t…

Can you take this please http://wpm-test.com/programming-typing-test/ It's all fun and games until it's code. I barely clear 50 wpm on that, and I know where every key is without looking. I actually dread typing those 3-10 lines on that test, which is how I know I could use more practice, but can't find the time for it.

I got 33, would probably have got a couple more on a programming language/style I'm familiar with instead of whatever that is. (Spaces on the inside of round brackets? Empty bracket pairs with a space between them? No space between if and the opening bracket? Madness.)

Re: Show HN: I made a game to improve my typing speed

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Post by clbrmbr »

mtlynch wrote: post #17

This is neat! Thanks for sharing! One thing I've been looking for (and would pay money for) is a tool/game that helps me improve my typing speed in real-world scenarios, especially writing code and/or editing documents. I purchased a subscription to keybr,[0] and it's pretty nice, but it assumes you're always typing brand new text linearly. There's no way to practice things like jumping to a previous line, jumping to…

For better or worse I configured mine for an optimized keylayout (RSNTB ,AEIH on the homerow). I’ve got it in muscle memory but wondering how many days it will take to get past this ~30 wpm plateau.

Re: Show HN: I made a game to improve my typing speed

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Post by one_more_q »

fragmede wrote: post #42

It's gotta be fun, and Typing for the Dead is a good one. https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/246580/ More recently though, there's https://monkeytype.com/ and https://play.typeracer.com/ which are fun little breaks during the day.

Man I love this game so much. Wished there was a typing version of other classics like half life.
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